Re: ABC backs down on 9/11 movie

Kurt Ullman wrote:
In article <BfWdnSvyKoxCiJXYUSdV9g@xxxxxxx>, "Iva" <ivaf@xxxxxxx> wrote:


"phil" <steward1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've been off group for several months due to health issues, surgery
possible for gall stones may be in the offing. Will know more end of
month.

Oof, ouch, sympathy pains. BTDT. The one severe attack I had was one of
the most painful things I've ever felt.

But my surgery was very easy - a couple of stitches on Wednesday and back to
work on Monday. Hope yours is as easy too.


My FIL, myself and my sister all had gallbladder surgery. Our scars are interesting testimony to the changes over the years. My FIL looks like he was pretty much slit from gut to gullet, after not having seen it for a few years, my first reaction was to wonder when he had the bypass surgery and why he did not tell me. Mine is still there and about 9 inches long. My sister's consists of three little circles. And she did not get anywhere near the same amount of pain killers as did the previous two (g).

My wife went through that too... she got the nine-inch model.

First time it hit her, she was several months pregnant, and we were heading back to Vancouver with my dad from our family cabin... we stopped at the hospital in a small Interior town (Merritt - country music fans may recognize the name), and since it was already past midnight, they insisted on keeping her there over night. So Dad and I headed on to Vancouver, I got my car, left a note at work (at about 5am), and headed back up to get her.

To paraphrase Ted Nugent, her hospital stay was not unlike an activity that's "three syllables, and the first two are 'cluster'."

After finally examining her and assuring her the pain wasn't anything to do with the baby (which she already knew), the doctor declared the best thing to do was just to sleep it off. So they shot her up with Demerol and put her to bed. Within an hour, a nurse was waking her up to check her blood pressure, and asking her how she was doing, if she knew where she was, and other stupid questions that no-one on demerol should have to think about. Barely an hour after she got back to sleep, another nurse was wanting her to stand on a scale - like that's an easy thing when you're whacked out on demerol.

She finally got about two hours of uninterrupted sleep before she was awakened by the woman in the next bed going on loudly about the birds outside the window..

It was several months and two attacks later that she finally had the operation.

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